The hazard of confessional books is how fast the world moves on while they're written.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.
Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually.
One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.
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